DocumentCode :
2561793
Title :
Assessing the accessibility and usability of Malaysia Higher Education Website
Author :
Aziz, Maslina Abdul ; Isa, Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Mohd ; Nordin, Norzainuriah
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Univ. Teknol. MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Malaysia
fYear :
2010
fDate :
13-15 Dec. 2010
Firstpage :
203
Lastpage :
208
Abstract :
The awareness of the importance of usability and accessibility in Malaysia is demonstrated with the setting-up of usability laboratories from local universities and agency and studies in different applications. This study share the interest on creating awareness of the importance of accessibility and usability criteria by investigating the accessibility and usability level of Malaysia Higher Education Website. This study used 120 samples of higher education institution websites from the online portal of the Ministry of Higher Education (http://www.mohe.gov.my). The accessibility evaluation was done by using automatic evaluation to access the accessibility level according to WCAG 1.0 guideline. Usability evaluation was also done on page size, speed and broken link. The study revealed several accessibility and usability issues revolving Malaysia Higher Education website. We end our study with few recommendations for further improvement of the website usability and accessibility towards better improved online services and information for normal and disabled user.
Keywords :
Web design; educational computing; further education; portals; Malaysia higher education Web site; Ministry of Higher Education; WCAG 1.0 guideline; accessibility assessment; higher education institution Web site; portal; usability assessment; Communities; Educational institutions; Guidelines; Laboratories; Usability; Web sites; Malaysia Higher Education website; accessibility; usability;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shah Alam
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9048-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IUSER.2010.5716752
Filename :
5716752
Link To Document :
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